Run Google Chrome on Raspberry Pi

Google Chrome is one of the most popular browsers all over the world. And Raspberry Pi is the most popular mini-PC device. But unfortunately, they can’t meet together – there is no Chrome build for Raspberry Pi (and for any other ARM-based PC except Chromebook). You can use a number of other browsers (such as Epiphany, IceWeasel or even Lynx), but will face a lack of functionality. Many Pi-world enthusiasts use the open source version of Chrome – Chromium browser. But this isn’t a full replacement.

Chrome includes a number of proprietary libraries and in some cases, you need to use authentic Google software. For example, you can watch videos on Netflix or Amazon Prime with Chrome and can’t with Chromium. Good news that there is a simple solution to override this issue. Using Exagear Desktop allows you to get full x86 Linux environment. And this means that you can launch any application available in x86 Linux world, including Google Chrome!

In the previous versions of Exagear Desktop you could launch Chrome but it was running not very fast. The reason is that Raspberry Pi has lower performance comparing to modern PCs. That’s why we are making our best effort to optimize Exagear Desktop to run Chrome more smoothly. We recommend using Exagear Desktop 1.5 and higher to achieve reasonable performance.

Here is a simple instruction on how to install and run Google Chrome on your RPi 3 device.

Run Chrome

Final notes

We hope that every owner of Raspberry Pi will now enjoy using Google Chrome on his/her device!

Also, it is worth noting that with ExaGear Desktop you can run other x86 apps on Raspberry Pi and more ARM-based devices such as Odroid, Banana Pi, Beagleboard, Cubox, Jetson, Cubieboard etc. Get my ExaGear Desktop